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Overview: Steel through arch bridge carrying I-57 over the Mississippi River at Cairo
Location: Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois, and Mississippi County, Missouri
Status: Open to four lanes of traffic
History: Built 1978
Design: Steel through arch
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 820.7 ft.
Total length: 4,088.8 ft. (0.8 mi.)
Deck width: 59.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.4 ft.
Recognition: Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude: +37.02417, -89.21083 (decimal degrees)
37°01'27" N, 89°12'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 16/303337/4099838 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map: Cairo
Inventory numbers: IL 002-0022 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15005 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 03/2012): Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 67.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2011): 13,900

Cairo I-57 Bridge

Posted September 15, 2007, by mike rhodes (bridgebuilderus [at] YAHOO [dot] COM)

I think the contractor on the sub-structure of this bridge was Al Johnson, a Minneapolis contractor that went out of business in the early 90's.